Wonder if there will be an underground chess playing movement, similar to street countdown - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90QyIBJqrg
'Police. Step Away From the Chess Table'
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're at the playground with your kid, you should not be playing chess. You should be paying attention to your kid. The only people who really should be playing chess are those who aren't there with kids.
Or the ones playing chess with their kids i suppose.
Touché. I missed that option.
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#33> The tables are behind the gates of the park’s Emerson Playground, which the signs in question state is off limits to adults unaccompanied by minors. I keep rolling this around in my mind. It makes sense but at the some time it doesn't make sense at all. I'm sure it's intended to keep people from kidnapping kids or adults from destroying equipment but I fail to see how it would even be remotely effective at that.
Should we really be encouraging children to play chess? Not only is it terribly violent it is rather anti-american. The monarchy, church and knights all in charge capturing and crushing the pawns to gain territory, not to mention that it pitches black against white.
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#34If there is a park for 'children and their guardians' only, where is the park for 'single adults only'?
I'm only half joking, but seriously what if a single adult wants to go play on a swing set to regain his youth - isn't he being discriminated against?
Obviously this was just a good excuse to kick the 'creepy looking' people out of the park. I'll bet $100 that none of the people they tried to kick out were clean cut businessmen wearing a suit and tie.
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#35> The tables are behind the gates of the park’s Emerson Playground, which the signs in question state is off limits to adults unaccompanied by minors. I keep rolling this around in my mind. It makes sense but at the some time it doesn't make sense at all. I'm sure it's intended to keep people from kidnapping kids or adults from destroying equipment but I fail to see how it would even be remotely effective at that.
Should we really be encouraging children to play chess? Not only is it terribly violent it is rather anti-american. The monarchy, church and knights all in charge capturing and crushing the pawns to gain territory, not to mention that it pitches black against white.
Personally it never even occurred to me to read that far into chess, so i honestly doubt a child would do it either, to me its just a game and probably an educational one.
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#36> The tables are behind the gates of the park’s Emerson Playground, which the signs in question state is off limits to adults unaccompanied by minors. I keep rolling this around in my mind. It makes sense but at the some time it doesn't make sense at all. I'm sure it's intended to keep people from kidnapping kids or adults from destroying equipment but I fail to see how it would even be remotely effective at that.
> "I'm sure it's intended to keep people from kidnapping kids" Not a good job at that - the vast majority of kidnappings (or hell, cases of child abuse in general) are done by people known to the family. The creepy stranger who will swoop in when you turn your back and kidnap your child is 99% a figment of one's imagination.
Just another form of security theater.
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#37> The tables are behind the gates of the park’s Emerson Playground, which the signs in question state is off limits to adults unaccompanied by minors. I keep rolling this around in my mind. It makes sense but at the some time it doesn't make sense at all. I'm sure it's intended to keep people from kidnapping kids or adults from destroying equipment but I fail to see how it would even be remotely effective at that.
Should we really be encouraging children to play chess? Not only is it terribly violent it is rather anti-american. The monarchy, church and knights all in charge capturing and crushing the pawns to gain territory, not to mention that it pitches black against white.
Which part of that is anti-american?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Should we really be encouraging children to play chess? Not only is it terribly violent it is rather anti-american. The monarchy, church and knights all in charge capturing and crushing the pawns to gain territory, not to mention that it pitches black against white.
Personally it never even occurred to me to read that far into chess, so i honestly doubt a child would do it either, to me its just a game and probably an educational one.
Well since, in it's modern form, it's a Persian (ie Iranian) invention and was intended as a battle field simulation for training young warriors - I suppose playing it makes you a suspected terrorist.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Should we really be encouraging children to play chess? Not only is it terribly violent it is rather anti-american. The monarchy, church and knights all in charge capturing and crushing the pawns to gain territory, not to mention that it pitches black against white.
Which part of that is anti-american?
*sweeps palm over head
Whoooosh
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#40Here's a novel idea: Instead of a summons, how about the police calmly but firmly explain the law to them and ask them to leave? If they won't leave, THEN issue them a summons.
The police in NYC have illegal quotas on summonses and tickets. They were a sort of quasi-secret until very recently. Perhaps these cops needed to meet theirs?